Arthur Moore (Grimsby MP)

(c. 1666 – 4 May 1730), of Fetcham Park, Surrey, was an Irish businessman, economist and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1722.

On 30 September 1710 he was made one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations; he held this post during the remainder of the reign.

[1] During the last years of Queen Anne he showed great skill in parliament, and was deemed highly capable.

His brother Thomas Moore was made paymaster of the land forces abroad in August 1713.

Moore mediated between Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke in their quarrels, but threw in his lot with the latter.

[1] A Whig attack on Bolingbroke through Moore, corruption and the treaties backfired on Robert Monckton and Harley when he brought it up.

[1] Moore bought property in Surrey, including Fetcham Park House, the estate of Randalls in Leatherhead, and the farm of Polesden in Great Bookham; but was profligate.

He married at Westminster Abbey, on 4 November 1696, his second wife, Theophila Smythe of Epsom, daughter and heiress of William Smythe of the Inner Temple, paymaster of the band of pensioners, by Lady Elizabeth, eldest daughter of George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley.